It Doesn’t Need to Be a Chatbot

A more organic, incremental approach to integrating AI into existing products

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Shopify merchants: Customers abandoning carts due to "Do Not Honor" declines?

Find out why it happens, who to contact, and how to recover. paypager.com/blog/fix-cre...

I asked Claude for a word with 2 `r`s. It gave me the word "mirror".

🤦‍♂️

Hallucinations like this are common but avoidable. Here’s how MCP enables LLMs to utilize real tools, thereby avoiding common mistakes.

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New website launch today!

(I spent too much of my vacation time on this 😅 )

thulite.io does the heavy work of SEO. I managed to get a good score on PageSpeed. But the optimization process is challenging to say the least.

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How to debug errors?

I turn to GenAI tools nowadays. I tried a prompt shared by Ted Werbl and it turned out to be very useful.

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I wrote a UserScript to select multiple posts in Meta Business Suite.

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I love building tools to automate things but I don't usually write posts about them.

In this economic situation, it doesn't help me to have a CV that stands out. Not to mention that the interview process is being spammed by AI.

I guess I need to write more 🤷

Here's another refactoring move

When code parses an external input to make some calculations, things can get confusing

✂️ Split Phase Refactoring

The idea is to separate:
1️⃣ Parsing the input into a useful data structure
2️⃣ Using the structure to clarify the calculation